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Paris: France aims to launch a major Covid-19 vaccination campaign between April and June next year, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Early 2021 will see a first vaccination drive targeted at the most fragile and exposed groups, followed by a second campaign for the rest of the population, Macron told a press briefing at the Elysée Palace in Paris. Prime Minister Jean Castex, addressing parliament, added that residents of retirement homes -- where 16,000 people out of a national total of more than 52,000 have died from Covid -- and some staff would have priority for vaccinations. Worldwide hopes that Covid shots could be ready for use by the end of this year received a boost when US firm Moderna said it was filing Monday for emergency authorisation of its vaccine in the United States and Europe. (AFP)
